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Friday, May 2nd, 2025 11:54 AM

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Should we start deleting minor "awards"?

In the last few years or decade, starting probably at a time before IMDb updated its awards eligibility criteria, IMDb's awards page has been filled with swarms of "awards" that are distributed by some individuals or a group of small number of individuals on their webpages or blogs. For example, what is the TV Scholar Awards (https://m.imdb.com/event/ev0073357)? When you visit the awards' website through the event link (https://m.imdb.com/event/ev0073357/2024/1/TV%20Scholar%20Awards), you encounter a "The requested URL was not found on our server." error. But if you google the awards (https://www.tvscholar.com/p/2024-tv-scholar-awards), you see that the awards are handed out by someone on their personal blog who admits that these awards are handed out according to "[Their] totally biased recognitions for outstanding shows and performances in [a year]." So, these awards do not meet IMDb's current awards eligibility criteria. Furthermore, and more importantly, they should not have been admitted to be among the awards IMDb displays in the first place. Another example of an award that's been handed out without a proper governing body is the Pena de Prata awards (https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0037327/2021/1/). A few months ago there was a page for "Rusty Bagel Awards" on IMDb. The awards recognized the worst projects in a year, similar to the Razzies. I see that IMDb contributors realized that it was a nonsense awards distributed by whoever on the internet, so they removed the awards from IMDb's database (The link for the 2024 Rusty Bagel Awards on IMDb [now defunct]: https://m.imdb.com/event/ev0074246/2024/1). These awards convolute the pages of projects and people who worked on these projects and exude the sense that the project was more successful among critics or awards bodies even though it was not. They should not have been accepted by IMDb editors in the first place. Should we start removing these awards that are handed out by individuals on their personal blogs from IMDb as they do not pertain to IMDb's award eligibility criteria, like the editors' decision to remove Rusty Bagel Awards? Is IMDb going to accept "awards" that are chosen by a handful of people on the Internet? I think we should re-evaluate which awards are worthy of displaying on IMDb.

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Hi kdogs- Thank you for the information! You can report these events that do not meet our eligibility criteria through the respective Contact Us form that is under our Events Help Guide. You are welcome to include any supporting information/explanation and links to further help our editors which will then review all of these accordingly. Cheers!

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Dear Maya, Thank you very much for your response. I followed your suggestions and I have now received an e-mail informing me that the event I reported has been removed from IMDb's database. I will continue to report these events that do not meet IMDb's eligibility criteria. Much obliged to you. Cheers!

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@kdogs- Perfect, your welcome! Cheers!